MDEazz wrote:I had already interviewed my friend and the bulk of the info is in one 2 hour clip. I will mainly be using the audio, but some video of her talking as well.
I have not scanned photos yet as I wanted to get the flow of the "story" in audio first then scan the photos I felt best supported her rememberances.
@George and Barb - I have done a little key framing in PRE9, but I haven't used PE9 at all for slide shows. I'll have to figure out if this is the most efficient way to get the project started. I assume that one can completely edit the slideshow created in PE9 once the segments are brought into PRE9?
Melissa,
to answer your question -- yes, you cold completely edit the slide show from PSE 9 once it is in PRE 9 : however ...
Your post of the above information is leading me to change my recommendation and say it is probably better for you not to start with the Photoshop Elements slideshow editor. Do your entire project in Premiere Elements.
Why?
-- you say you are comfortable with keyframing : that is a significant point because you don't need the easier method in PSE
-- you have source video to edit in addition to the photos. PSE can't edit the video file
-- probably your narration will need to be split out from the video file as separate audio. I suspect that you may want to do precise placement of the narration for its relevant slide. The PSE slide show editor is really primitive for audio so it can't do everything you will need.
-- Cheryl has given you good ideas for managing and sequencing your photo files. These ideas use Photoshop Elements functions, but none of them require using the specific Elements Slide Show Editor.
Whichever workflow you do choose,
I suggest that you do a small project first with perhaps a dozen of the actual photos that are representative, some of the video, and some of the split out audio of narration and perhaps some music . Take that project all the way through burning a DVD and playing it on TV. You can consider this a throw away project and use it as a trial or learning exercise.